Good in Bed

By Jennifer Weiner

Good in Bed - Jennifer Weiner
  • Release Date: 2002-04-02
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4
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From 657 Ratings

Description

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner brings to life an irresistibly funny and relatable heroine in the novel The Boston Globe called “funny, fanciful, extremely poignant, and rich with insight.”

For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She’s even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body.

But the day she opens up a national women’s magazine and sees the words “Loving a Larger Woman” above her ex-boyfriend’s byline, Cannie is plunged into misery…and the most amazing year of her life. From Philadelphia to Hollywood and back home again, she charts a new course for herself: mourning her losses, facing her past, and figuring out who she is and who she can become.

Reviews

  • Overall liked the main character and the way the story was written

    4
    By Jamiam987
    I felt some things to be exaggerated like how people either loved Nifkin or hated him, and how taking care of him was so straightforward when Cannie was in the hospital. The last hundred pages or so felt different from the beginning of the book, kind of like they were rushed or written but not reviewed as thoroughly.
  • Slow start

    3
    By aadams67
    I quit reading this book no less than 10 times. It did not grab me. There was so much character building… Unnecessary exploration of side stories. I got lost in the point of her story several times. As much as I wanted to just put it aside, I needed to know the ending. The last third of the book picked up and I poured through it quickly. I left the book feeling mediocre. I felt for Cannie. She was dealt a rough hand. But I didn’t love it. It’s certainly not a book I will recommend or reread.
  • Awesome

    5
    By kaykaybean13
    Loved both
  • Loved this book!

    5
    By Bowhead45
    I love this book! It’s not the first time I’ve read it and I’m sure it won’t be my last. I love how Jennifer Weiner writes, she does such a wonderful job of bringing her characters to life.
  • Slow but good ending

    3
    By aburns3
    Took me a long time to get into this book. It finally got good and easy to read toward the end.
  • Amazing Female Lead

    5
    By Toni FGMAMTC
    Cannie has a great personality. I love reading the words that come out of her mouth, the witty come backs and the down-to-earth delivery. She's a real people person. She's full-figured but doesn't let it slow her down. On the outside she is confident and full of life, but she does feel the barbs of plus-sized life on the inside. I like her realness. I adored this story. It made me laugh and tear up, and it touched me deeply. It covers so many issues like weight, marriage, pregnancy, depression, parent-child relationships, gay family members, break ups, jobs and just a little of everything in a woman's life these days. The feeling is often light and occasionally heavy. It's inspiring, entertaining and delivered with a special oomph that's missing from some books. Good in Bed is a must read.
  • Good in bed

    5
    By Denise968
    Absolutely amazing!! I cannot wait to read more of this authors awesome work. Thank you for taking me away from Facebook and getting me back into reading! ❤️
  • I will read this again and again

    5
    By Boundless Book Reviews
    I was sent an email from NetGalley offering this title for a short time to celebrate the book being out 15 years.  I read the blurb and anything that has a plus size woman as the main character is always worth a shot.  I LOVED it!  I’ve LIVED some of it and being a woman who is also plus size I could relate so so much; the pain, the heartbreak, the family drama. Cannie is one of those women that I know, I would be instant friends with.  She touches the lives of everybody she is around.  She is a beautifully damaged woman, that doesn’t know her own worth and is obsessed with being thin.  Thinking that if she was thin someone would love her.  Not realizing all the love that she already has.  One of the best lines in the book was one of Cannies friends laying it on her.  “You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you….What we really need….is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people.” Good in Bed, is one of those books that will stay with me forever and I will go back and read again and again.  It was everything women’s fiction should be, touching, heartfelt, funny, inspiring and one of the best books I have read all year.  If I could give it more than a five I would but as it is it get Five HUGE Boundless stars!...Sara
  • Unexpectedly boring

    2
    By boysinabooth
    While the language in the book is beautiful, I felt that Good in Bed was a bit droll for my tastes. It was predictable in places and took me longer to read than I anticipated. Scenes dragged on for me. I've read other works by Jennifer Weiner and enjoyed them. Maybe this one is just a fluke.
  • Didn't want to put it down

    5
    By IUfan1_
    I loved this book! It had me laughing and getting a little teary eyed. It was great to read a book that I could actually empathize with on SOOO many levels.